Distributed privacy-preserving methods for statistical disclosure control

Javier Herranz*, J. Nin, Vicenç Torra

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Abstract

Statistical disclosure control (SDC) methods aim to protect privacy of the confidential information included in some databases, for example by perturbing the non-confidential parts of the original databases. Such methods are commonly used by statistical agencies before publishing the perturbed data, which must ensure privacy at the same time as it preserves as much as possible the statistical information of the original data. In this paper we consider the problem of designing distributed privacy-preserving versions of these perturbation methods: each part of the original database is owned by a different entity, and they want to jointly compute the perturbed version of the global database, without leaking any sensitive information on their individual parts of the original data. We show that some perturbation methods do not allow a private distributed extension, whereas other methods do. Among the methods that allow a distributed privacy-preserving version, we can list noise addition, resampling and a new protection method, rank shuffling, which is described and analyzed here for the first time.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationData Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security - 4th International Workshop, DPM 2009, and Second International Workshop, SETOP 2009, Revised Selected Papers
Pages33-47
Number of pages15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event4th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2009, and 2nd International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2009 - St. Malo, France
Duration: 24 Sept 200925 Sept 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5939 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference4th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2009, and 2nd International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2009
Country/TerritoryFrance
CitySt. Malo
Period24/09/0925/09/09

Keywords

  • Homomorphic encryption
  • Privacy
  • Statistical disclosure control

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